Freiston Shore Nature Reserve, Shore Road, Freiston, Boston PE22 0LY Data via plota.co.uk

B/25/0446 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed staff welfare building, storage container and public toilet block Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
6 Nov 2025
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Validated
12 Dec 2025
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Consultation
12 Dec 2025
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Approved
9 Feb 2026

Approved on 9 Feb 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m; National infrastructure project 1885 m away: Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind (Generating Station); Flood defence 37 m away (embankment, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood); Priority habitat 16 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Boston
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
PE22 0LY
Received
6 Nov 2025
Validated
12 Dec 2025
Ward
Coastal Ward
Parish
Freiston
Case officer
Show
Target decision
6 Feb 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
9 Feb 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Neil Dowlman Architecture Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 59 days from validation, about the council's usual 60 days. Approved, as 91% of full applications here are.

41%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
147decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Boston in the last twelve months, from validation. Boston decision record →

Public comments

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207 neighbours consulted · Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14451008
Neighbours
12 Dec 2025
Consultation
12 Dec 2025
Comments by
28 Jan 2026
Site or press notice
7 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
6 Feb 2026
Env. assessment
No